The Corvallis MLK tournament is an OSCF qualifier that features approximately eight separate playing sections, spanning the range from young novices to the strongest scholastic open section on the calendar. With a large number of relatively small sections, the sections are well-balanced by age and rating, so everyone has a realistic chance of winning....
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The Corvallis/Albany Open, Dec 10-11 is modeled on the seasonal opens at the Portland Chess club but with double the prize fund ($1350). Awards in the Open section: $300-200-100 for 1st-3rd, $75 for top U2000 player. Awards in the Reserve section (U1800): $300-150-75 for 1st-3rd, $75 for top U1600 and $75 for top U1400....
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Jake Winkler and Praveer Sharan represented Oregon at the K-12 Nationals in Dallas, Texas, November 18-20. Both turned in great performances. Praveer tied for 9th place in a very strong 2nd grade section with 117 players in all. Jake was rated only 976 going into the event, but his first three opponents were rated...
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A great way to get your chess fix this weekend is to visit the Chess Works Quads at the Portland Chess Club. Sunday afternoon, 1:00-4:00. This will be a regular, bi-weekly event and an OSCF qualifier. Entry fee: $15. Check the calendar for details.
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At first glance, 0.5% doesn’t seem like a huge number, but if hometown Los Angeles had the same fraction of its population going to the National Youth Action tournament as Coquille has, there’d be over 75,000 players. If every village, town, and city within 900 miles of LA were like Coquille and were sending...
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by Nancy Keller The Southern Oregon Chess League kicked off this year’s chess season at Myrtle Creek and Coquille’s Junior Varsity team dominated. Because of lack of full teams but everyone wanting to play chess, all players including coaches and tag-alongs were put into a swiss sys competition. Team member wins were added to...
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The name and format of the event has varied through the years, but on November 18 Jerry Ramey hosted his fall scholastic tournament for the 17th year in a row–a Fall Classic indeed. This year the 68 players were grouped into five separate playing sections. Sectioning:The Elite Eight Solution. A vexing issue in scholastic...
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The 2nd annual Byron Massey Memorial chess tournament was held Nov 5, 2011 in Coquille in loving memory of Byron Massey, who passed away in October 2010 after struggling with Type I diabetes his whole life. Thirty-nine players were divided into three sections by age and rating. The Elite section was won by adult...
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by Ed Addis The Portland Area League played the 3rd round of their Swiss tournament on Wednesday, November 16th. Pairings had been made before hand — but, as fate would have it, Sherwood HS was shut down due to a sewage backup and all of their activities were cancelled. So at the last moment...
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